Anthony Brach Staff Member of Missouri Botanical Garden and Research Associate of the Harvard University Herbaria, 1993 to Present General Interests: Flora of China, Saururaceae, Cotoneaster, online floras, interactive identification keys, botanical and ecological web indices, plant ecology. Current Projects: Flora of China Project (member of Editorial Committee), Internet Directory for Botany, The Ecology WWW Page. Ph.D., Environmental & Forest Biology, 1993, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry M.S., Environmental & Forest Biology, 1990, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry B.S., Biology, Iona College Publications: Brach, A. R. 1996. The Flora of China on the World Wide Web (WWW). pp. 104-106 in Zhang Aoluo & Wu Sugong (eds.) Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Floristic Characteristics and Diversity of East Asian Plants, July 25-27. 1996, Kunming, Yunnan, P.R. China. China Higher Education Press, Beijing & Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Brach, A. R. 1996. Advancing Ecology on the Internet - A Commentary. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 77(2): 123. Brach, A. R. 1995. Botany and the INTERNET: Useful and interesting World Wide Web servers. Commentary. Plant Science Bulletin 41(1): 7-8. Brach, A. R. 1995. Ecology and the World Wide Web. Commentary. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 76(2): 112-113. Brach, A. R., S. J. McNaughton, and D. J. Raynal. 1993. Photosynthetic adaptability of two fern species of a northern hardwood forest. American Fern Journal 83: 47-53. Brach, A. R., and D. J. Raynal. 1992. Effects of liming on Oxalis acetosella and Lycopodium lucidulum. Journal of Applied Ecology 29: 492-500. Hurd, T. M., A. R. Brach, and D. J. Raynal. 1998. Response of understory vegetation of Adirondack forests to nitrogen additions. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28: 799-807. Li, L. Q., and A. R. Brach. 2001. Cimicifuga. (pp. 144-147) in Wu Z. Y. and P. H. Raven (eds.) Flora of China. Volume 6. Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden. Lu, L. T., and A. R. Brach. 2002. New combinations in Chinese Cotoneaster (Rosaceae). Novon 12(4): 495-496. Lu, L. T., and A. R. Brach. 2003. Cotoneaster. (pp. 85-108) in Wu Z. Y. and P. H. Raven (eds.) Flora of China. Volume 9. Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden. Ma, J. S., Quan-ru Liu, and A. R. Brach. 1999. A revision of the genus Tripterygium (Celastraceae). Edinburgh J. Bot. 56(1): 33-46. Raynal, D. J., A. R. Brach, and C. L. Demers. 1988. Characterization of atmospheric deposition at Huntington Forest, Adirondack Mountains, New York, 1978-1987. State University of New York - College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, New York. Smallidge, P. J., A. R. Brach, and I. R. Mackun. 1993. Effects of watershed liming on terrestrial ecosystem processes. Environmental Reviews 1: 157-171.Wu, Zheng-yi & Peter H. Raven (eds). 1994. Flora of China. Vol. 17 (Verbenaceae to Solanaceae). Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden. 342 pp. (as editorial assistant). Xia, N. H., and A. R. Brach. 1999. Saururaceae (pp. 108-109) in Wu Z. Y. and P. H. Raven (eds.) Flora of China. Volume 4. Science Press & Missouri Botanical Garden.
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